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Introduction Ten years ago, on April 14, 2014, the jihad group Boko Haram, which operates in Nigeria, kidnapped 276 schoolgirls, most of them Christian (18 were Muslims)[1] and aged between 16 and 18 at that time, from their secondary school in the town of Chibok, Borno State, in the northeast of the country.
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As girls have become dangerously at risk in Nigeria, policies and plans to improve their safety have run into the many obstacles erected by a predatory patriarchy that is insatiable for fodder for its pervasive experiment. This month, a prominent face of this predatory patriarchy zoomed himself into the Nigerian experience in the form of Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly.